39 Great Communist Sayings

July 8, 2017

In the political and social sciences, communism is a movement that has the ultimate goal in the establishment of the communist society. Here is a look at some of the most monumental communist sayings to encourage you.

“A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel’s work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.”

“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”

“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It’s that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.”

“But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.”

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”

“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.”

“Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.”

“Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.”

“Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.”

“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”

“During the night two delegates of the railwaymen were arrested. The strikers immediately demanded their release, and as this was not conceded, they decided not to allow trains leave the town.”

“Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.”

“Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”

“I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world’s goods.”

“I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.”

“If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.”

“In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. ”

“It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.”

“It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.”

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”

“Man is by nature a curious animal. You can hide the truth from him temporarily, but not for ever.”

“Most of them don’t know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.”

“Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.”

“The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.”

“The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.”

“The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a gun in your face, whereas under communism central planning begins with a gun in your face.”

“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself.”

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”

“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”

“Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.”

“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”

“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character.”

“Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.”